How to Remove a Password from a PDF File Using PHP

Is it possible to remove a Password from a PDF file using PHP?

Of course it's possible, all you need to do is reverse engineer the encryption and compression and implement the reverse operations in PHP - but why bother:

<?php
   `gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=unencrypted.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f encrypted.pdf`;
?>

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How to password protect pdf in PHP

Download the library used: Protect PDF in PHP

<?php

function pdfEncrypt ($origFile, $password, $destFile){
//include the FPDI protection http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/fpdi-protection-128/
require_once('fpdi/FPDI_Protection.php');

$pdf =& new FPDI_Protection();
// set the format of the destinaton file, in our case 6×9 inch
$pdf->FPDF('P', 'in', array('6','9'));

//calculate the number of pages from the original document
$pagecount = $pdf->setSourceFile($origFile);

// copy all pages from the old unprotected pdf in the new one
for ($loop = 1; $loop <= $pagecount; $loop++) {
    $tplidx = $pdf->importPage($loop);
    $pdf->addPage();
    $pdf->useTemplate($tplidx);
}

// protect the new pdf file, and allow no printing, copy etc and leave only reading allowed
$pdf->SetProtection(array(),$password);
$pdf->Output($destFile, 'F');

return $destFile;
}

//password for the pdf file
$password = 'info@domain.com';

//name of the original file (unprotected)
$origFile = 'book.pdf';

//name of the destination file (password protected and printing rights removed)
$destFile ='book_protected.pdf';

//encrypt the book and create the protected file
pdfEncrypt($origFile, $password, $destFile );
?>

PHP PDF password protection (no open without password)

FPDF (+FPDF_Protection) and also TCPDF will work. You will have to pass BOTH user AND owner password to the setProtection() method. If you leave one as an empty string the viewer application is able to authenticate with this "empty string-password" automatically.

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